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Boone Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$6.8MEducation$5.3MEnvironment$4.6MPhilanthropy$3.9MCivil Rights$2.1MHuman Services$1.5MEmployment$1.0MYouth Development$810kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Trust for Public Land$1,000,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of Am$250,000
ACLU Foundation Inc$250,000
Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$250,000
Honored Foundation$250,000
Trinity Park Conservancy$250,000
Greenspace Dallas$200,000
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex$100,000
Big Thought$100,000
Commit$100,000
Meadows Mental Health Policy Instit$100,000
Parkland Foundation$100,000
The 19th News$100,000
For Oak Cliff$100,000
The Reimagination Lab Inc$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Intermountain Children's Home: $30k → 9%Dignity Project: $25k → 12%Hostage US Inc: $25k → 6%Dignity Project: $10k → 12%Hostage US Inc: $5k → 6%UpTogether: $100k → 10%Warren Village Inc: $25k → 12%Warren Village Inc: $20k → 12%Family Promise of Greater Denver: $133k → 12%Family Promise of Greater Denver: $125k → 12%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $200k → 10%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $200k → 10%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $200k → 10%Power to Decide: $350k → 14%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $100k → 10%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $50k → 10%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $50k → 10%Viola's House: $150k → 14%Viola's House: $150k → 14%Viola's House: $150k → 14%Viola's House: $10k → 14%Viola's House: $10k → 14%Empowering the Masses: $10k → 14%Empowering the Masses: $10k → 14%The Afiya Center: $75k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $200k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $100k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $100k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $25k → 14%Veteran Women's Enterprise Center: $4k → 14%The Family Place: $50k → 14%The Afiya Center: $25k → 14%Heart of Courage: $10k → 14%Heart of Courage: $10k → 14%Bachman Lake Together: $10k → 14%Metrocrest Services: $250k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Boone Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 67%.

Boone Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 66 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
49

Total granted

$28M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+5%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +113%
  • PF
    PARKLAND FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +30%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • PT
    POWER TO DECIDE
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +6%
  • MS
    METROCREST SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +4%
  • NEO Philanthropy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +28%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

—
4
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
5
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
6
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
7
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
8
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
9
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…

Health
10
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
11
Achieve Now

Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…

Education
12
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ignite; the most unlike its peers is Abide Womens Health Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/108
Grantees still filing
71/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARKLAND FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $2,000,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,250,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FED…MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $550,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH …ABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERVICES: $514,998 · HealthABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SE…+3 more: $280,500 · HealthTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $3,951,612 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUB…Greenspace Dallas: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentGreenspace Dallas+1 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentHonorED Foundation: $1,250,000 · EducationHonorED Foundat…COMMIT2DALLAS: $1,000,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASUNITED TO LEARN: $410,000 · EducationUNITED TO LEARNIGNITE: $400,000 · EducationIGNITEDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $375,000 · EducationDALLAS AFTERSCH…MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $325,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS F…CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 · EducationPaul Quinn College: $160,000 · Education+8 more: $402,220 · Education+8 moreTexas Women's Foundation: $825,000 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherBIG THOUGHT: $700,000 · OtherBIG THOUGHTFAIR PARK FIRST: $500,000 · OtherFAIR PARK FIRSTTHE 19TH NEWS: $325,000 · OtherTrinity Park Conservancy: $1,000,000 · OtherTrinity Park ConservancySOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GRE…+57 more: $3,580,780 · Other+57 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS: $800,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PA…VIOLAS HOUSE: $470,000 · Human ServicesVIOLAS HOU…FOR OAK CLIFF: $425,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CL…POWER TO DECIDE: $350,000 · Human ServicesPOWER TO D…FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC: $258,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PRO…METROCREST SERVICES: $250,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST…+14 more: $539,200 · Human Services+14 moreUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $1,601,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $600,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS…HOPEWELL FUND: $389,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL F…AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $150,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $80,800 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,125,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $200,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $148,500 · Civil Rights
Health$6,595,498Environment$4,966,612Education$4,522,220Other$8,030,780Human Services$3,092,200Philanthropy$2,970,800Civil Rights$2,473,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $3,951,612 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $2,000,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $1,601,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHonorED Foundation: $1,250,000 over 6y, 67% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,125,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGreenspace Dallas: $1,000,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetTrinity Park Conservancy: $1,000,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $1,000,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $825,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS: $800,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $700,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $550,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERVICES: $514,998 over 4y, 20% of budgetSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetFAIR PARK FIRST: $500,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVIOLAS HOUSE: $470,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF: $425,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $410,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetIGNITE: $400,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $389,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $375,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetPOWER TO DECIDE: $350,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $325,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $325,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $300,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC: $258,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC: $250,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetTexas Appleseed: $200,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLEADERSHIP ISD INC: $200,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPaul Quinn College: $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDELIGHTED TO DOULA BIRTH SERVICES: $155,500 over 4y, 34% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $124,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Reimagination Lab Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds HonorED Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Greenspace Dallas ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds Texas Women's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
  • Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds ABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAIR PARK FIRST ↗
  • Who funds VIOLAS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds FOR OAK CLIFF ↗
  • Who funds UNITED TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds IGNITE ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds POWER TO DECIDE ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
  • Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Appleseed ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP ISD INC ↗
  • Who funds ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Paul Quinn College ↗
  • Who funds DELIGHTED TO DOULA BIRTH SERVICES ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Texas Women's FoundationTX59.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Women's Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · George & Fay Young Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boone Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boone Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Boone Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Boone Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 128 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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